Comment on What if programmers rewrote the English language?
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 3 weeks ago
They may have already had a go at German, where common word pairs are collapsed into macros (i.e. “in dem” (“in the”) becomes “im”, “zu der” becomes “zur” and so on).
1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Same in English…
Can’t, won’t, you’d’nt’ve, and if we get into dialects then you get things like owt (anything), nowt (nothing), ont (on the) and int (in the).